October 2014 Update Thank you for your interest in the Microsoft Action Pack subscription. The new Action Pack has been in market for several months now. You can learn more about your Action Pack opportunities and benefits on the partner portal...

by Joe Chason, US Microsoft Partner Network lead On February 24, several program-wide changes to the Microsoft Partner Network will take effect. Some of these changes are related to the Microsoft Cloud Partner programs. To help you understand what the...

Posted by Diane Golshan, Managing Editor for U.S. Partner Communications. If you saw Jon Roskill’s keynote at last year’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles in person or online, you may recall that he spent time talking about the four key areas...

As the managing editor of the Microsoft U.S. partner portal, one of my responsibilities is understanding how partners use the site and how we can improve the experience with it. Each month, I look at several data points and read between 200-300 comments...

At the start of the calendar year, I challenged each of you to name yourself “Entrepreneur in Chief” of your organization, harnessing the power we each possess as an innovative thinker. So, when Brian Hall , general manager of Microsoft Surface, came...

Join Microsoft cloud experts and your local Microsoft team for a one-day training that will help you accelerate your cloud sales using demo tools, customer campaigns, and shared best practices. You will learn about partner opportunities with the new Office...

This week, our e-mail newsletter reached a significant milestone, delivering news aligned to Microsoft Partner Network profile data at both the organizational and individual level. While we have targeted the U.S. partner newsletter by program level, geography...

Each month in the third-Friday edition of the U.S. partner newsletter , our Microsoft Action Pack Subscription expert in the U.S., Julie Golding, delivers a message to Action Pack Solution Provider (SP) and Action Pack Development and Design (DD) subscribers...

Microsoft offers its Partner Network members programs, training, resources, and materials to help them build, sell, deploy, and support their solutions based on Microsoft products and technologies. To help you stay informed about opportunities, news,...

by Jenni Flinders, Vice President, Microsoft US Partner Group I love to travel, which is fortunate considering the amount of it I do for my job. But for years, I’ve been juggling between an on the ground, connected, productive, and entertained experience...

The game is changing for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) as new technologies in areas like cloud services, mobile computing, and business intelligence transform the IT landscape. All of this change adds up to an overwhelming number of choices for...

by Jenni Flinders, Vice President, Microsoft US Partner Group Communities are at the core of how we change the world. We have seen many times over the last few years how strength in numbers somehow makes us better as individuals. We know this to be true...

A blog series for US partners by Jenni Flinders, Microsoft US Vice President, Partner Strategy and Programs. As we rapidly approach the Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston, I’m pleased to announce the United States 2013 Partner of the Year Award winners...

by Julie Golding, U.S. MPN Lead Partner advisory hours are used as currency for technical presales and advisory services offered by the Microsoft Partner Services team. As part of your company’s Microsoft Partner Network membership, your organization...

July 30, 2013 Update: Virtual Partner Concierge is no longer available, but I invite you to join the new US Partner Community on Yammer, at http://aka.ms/uspyammer ( instructions ). All of the features of Concierge that helped you stay informed and find...

Last month in the newsletter and on this blog, I mentioned Virtual Partner Concierge as a source of information that complements the U.S. partner portal and newsletter as well as our social media outreach. Several partners who have checked it out over...

Looking for my guest post to the East Region blog about WPC 2010 attendance options? http://bit.ly/9hhjeH The topic for this blog post came to me through an e-mail sent to partnerQ@microsoft.com last week. “We are new Partners in the Network…What is the...

Last week, we counted down to the final stages of transitioning to the “new” Microsoft Partner Network. Thanks for your positive feedback about the Daily Double posts, where I covered tools and resources to help you assess where you are and decide where...

In his Day 3 Vision Keynote at the 2012 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in July, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner stated, “Every product in our portfolio is being refreshed in a twelve-month period.” It’s an historic year for Microsoft, the biggest launch...

by Balbir Singh, Sr. Marketing Manager, Ready-to-Go Marketing Tired of constantly updating your website to be in sync with information about Microsoft products and technologies? Looking for an easy way to maintain your site with the latest information...

A couple of months ago, I published an online guide for partners to help you prepare for all of the product releases we have planned this year. That post has been updated a couple of times as we passed launch milestones for Windows Server 2012 and Visual...

by Julie Golding, U.S. MPN Lead Last month, I talked about the most significant Microsoft competency requirements and name changes that will take effect this month to help you understand what changes will affect your organization now or at your next Microsoft...

On the first and third Friday of each month, the U.S. Partner Team delivers a newsletter for U.S.-based members of the Microsoft Partner Network. The content you receive in your email inbox as a benefit of your membership is specific to your company’s...